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NAVAL NEWS. MAILS. ASULIVLD—% Leeward Island, z Waterford. DuE-1 Got tertburgh, i Malta, a Dublin, z Waterford. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TrviLVIL O'CLOCK. Consols . . -66 i I Red. Ann. - - 65 i 66 T-H E SUN. GOLEM QUIS DICEZZ tALSUM ALIDLAT ? L 0 ND 0 lv, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1808. WE this morning received Bartadoes Papers, from which we have made the following interesting extracts, relative to the failure of an attempt of the Enemy to retake the Island of Mariegalante BARBADOES, SEPT. 6.—Determined to " re trieve" (as , the Captain-General ERNOUF emphati cally expresses it) the Island of Mariegalante, he has thrown into it reinforCements of troops, artillery, and ammunition. " On the 28th ult. about 450 men were embark ed in .canoes at St. Ann's, Guadaloupe, and during a hazy and tempestuous_ night put off for Mariega lante. The force which first landed there, and were defeated in assaulting the battery at Grand Bourg, remained at the above period in the fastnesses cf the interior. SEPT. 10.-Dispatches from Mariegalante have been received here, giving the most satisfa&ory ac counts of the progress and success against the Enemy; the subjoined particulars of which we lay before the Public by authority : FRIDAY, SEVT. 9. , ---The Armed Schooner Maria arrived last night from Mariegalante, with the fol lowing intelligence : . . " The three companies of the Ist West-India Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel B,LACKWELL, which proceeded from Carlisle Bay on the night of Saturday the 27th Aug. i❑ his Ma jesty's Ship Captain, were, landed at Mariegalante on the 29th .following, and being reinforced by the Naval Garrison, they attacked the enemy on the morning of the 3oth ; and, after pres sing him from one fastness to another, during the course of five days -and nights, in all of which he made more or less resistance according .to circumstances, he was compelled to surrender at discretion on the 3d instant, with the loss of 12 officers, , 162 rank and file, taken prisoners; one brass field-piece, 450 stand of arms, and a considerable proportion of ammunition. The ex ertion of the Coops of every description . was eX emplary, and the fatigue they underwent unusually great. ' The loss of the Enemy in killed, wounded, and sick, had not been ascertained when the Maria Schooner left Mariegalante on the evening of the 4th, nor is their precise force landed from Guada lotipe con etlly known; they exceeded 200 men, and were composed of regular artillery and infantry. " The detachment of the Ist West India had two men wounded, one of whom is since dead. " I is with great regret that these accounts con firm the fad, that Mr. BROWN, a respectable Gen tleman from Antigua, who was a prisoner in the hands of the Enemy, being placed by them in the rear of their picket when attacked on the evening of the 2d inst. was unfortunately mortally wounded. " Colonel CA:sIBRIELS, who concluded the French troops from Guadaloupe, thought fit to aban:`..ai them before the surrender; whetlit:: he il:'., t'SCai,CU ► to GuadalOupe, or is concealed in Mariegaiaitte, is not ascertained. The mission of the Spanish Officer, embarked on board the Elizabeth, is said to relate to a propo sition for obtaining a naval force to co-operate with an expedition projeeled by the Spaniards for subdu ing the French part of St. Domingo, which, on its reduction, they will guarantee our joint possession of thorn with ourselves." SEPT. t3.—His Majesty's Schooner Elizabeth arrived here on Sunday morning, from St. Thomas's, and brought a Spanish Officer, charged with Dis patches to our Naval Commander. This Gentle - Man is Don DE CHATILLON, Colonel in the Spanish v;r:''c-:. His mission is of a ccntidential nature, and embraces a very important objeal. " The whole of Spanish South America (Conti nent and Islands) has .adopted the spirit of the Pa- rent 'Stair:, and throwjroff all fellowship and frater nity with-the French. At Cuba, 'an animated and Loyal Edia has been promulgated in the name of FL:RDINAND VII. and War formally declared against parts of Spain, is of a very satisfactory nature. The Spanisb,Troops that were so treacherously dis.. armed: and 4onfined by, , GenerakJUNOT at Lishon, landedibout the middle . ry last' month, in Valencia, and i6medialely commenced their march to join the army In Catalonia. Some British troops were land=' ed,- with a inP tzaia..4o-artillery, and spare arnas-for 10,000 men. kr . There is a report in one of the Corunna Gazettes, that an aaion had taken place,in. the Mediterranean, between a British and'a'Russian Squadron, in which the latter was defeated, with the loss of five sail of the line, eight frigates, and two brigs; but that the English lost two eighty-gun ships, a torty-eight gun frigate, and 900 wen. It is hardly necessary to ob. serve, that this report is wholly destitute of fotinda tion. The Russians had no such Squadron in the Mediterranean. , The folloWing is stated to be the Of Spanish AcCount of the Battle of the 31st Ult. It agrees in every essential particular with the details which we have laid before our Readers. The Second however, is stated to have taken place on the sth, and not on the 4th of November; but we have rea son to believe tha► tic latter was the day on which General BLAKE ►:; : ,,;e the successful attack upon the French near Vannesada " On t!:‘ 31st of Odoher, four diyisions of Ge neral BLAKE'S Army were attacked by 25,000 French. After fighting, as became valiant Spa niards during the whole day, General BLAKE, in or der to prevent being surrounded, determined to fall back and to forma junaiou with the divisions of the Asturias and the Marquis DE LA RomAisrA. The retreat was conduCled in the, best order, without the loss of cannon, colours, or prisoners. They halted during the night of the Ist of November, at Bilboa. General BLAKE having resolved to take post at Valmaseda, the army marched on t;ie 2d for ano ther position, where it was joined by the Asturians, the troops of the North, and the fourth division of Galicia; a small detachment having been left at Bilboa. On the 3d the French appeared before that city in great force, and the few troops that were there evacuated it in good order, and fell back - on Valmaseda. " In the action of the 31st all the di 6sions display ed the greatest gallantry, in maintaining their position against a very superior force during the whole day, with unexampled energy, _ and left the field of battle with reluctance; the enemy, notwithstanding his. superiority, was unable to gain a foot of ground. The I, loss of the Spaniards was considerable, but that of the French much greater; so that they Were incapable of molesting the Spaniards in their retreat, which was effeded in rhe most orderly manner, without the loss of a single knapsack. " The army being concentrated at Valmaseda, Gen. BLAKE received information, on the 4tb, that a division of the enemy, consisting of 10,000 men, was marching on the Heights of Ontara, with a view of cutting off a division of his at in) posted in that place. He therefore put his troops in motion at day break, and at one o'clock attack eo t ;le enemy. At ter an obstinate battle, .which t Aqi tt.l dark, he com pletely put them to the rot great slaughter, and the loss of many prison'•, -, 3 .Cho ti it zer, two aininu nition waggons, and a considerab,c quantity of pio visinf " "1..,;i eleven o'cl ick of the night of the sth, when the dispAteit was sent off, prisoners and bag gage con , thu,:d to be brought in. The number and rank , ;.t . :he prisoners cannot be exaftly Stdted, as our tro ,itinued the pursuit, and there •s ere the b-st founded hopes they would be able to capture a great part of the French division, who finding their retreat by the high road cut otf, d filed by the edge of the mountains skirting the valiies, in which di re6ion they were closely pursued. On the morning of the 6th, all the army march ed forward, and earnestly , -olititett permission to enter Bilboa at the point of the bayonet. - We anxi- ously await the reult of this enterprize, n hick, there is every reason to hope, will prove successful." `I3I.7ONAPARTP,' TlyS a Mornin4 Riper, gel,s g? eat credit fur the wisdoht qf his hhozs: This is, unior tunately,,true; but from whom does be get it ? from the enemies of their country; from the revilers of Government ; from the insulters of their Sovereigu ; from the instigators of sedition ; from the hirelings of a Party, eager f9r the power to do mischief, and little scrupulous of the means of acquiring it. To such as these, BLIONAPARTE is always wise, always active, always provident.—lt signifies little, that with a levity which would disgrace an idiot, he has counteraofed his favourite system of exclusion, and wantonly thrown open halt the ports in Europe to us ! It signifies little, that with an apathy, or a. list lessness, which would be scarcely natural in a sea calf or a polypnc, be has seen his hordes of thieves and murderers chaced from one extremity of Spain to the other, and reduced to a third of their original numbers ! It signifies little, that when his reputa tion, nay, his. political existence, Was at stake, he should postpone his exertions for their security to a We have this dayetwinned our Extracts from the i • • . , season when all cu be innunely anal- _ 41: Spaizish Papers. The - Corunna Gazettes, though of tiplied, and his chance of final success rendert-d more t .a late daie, do not contain any intelligente respeet han problematical ! He still main ta ins hi s c h aracter arliong the base and servile herd o f his s y c o p h ants ' t'4 l 4 - novernelits of General BLAKZ'S Array Sub-. v . ; enumerated above, and in the words of the Morriii4 ,- soqu6nt to thee brought by the Jupiter. The Chranicte—s , gets great ea ,:;!it for the wisdom of his holiriever, from the southern and eastern plaits!' B CON A PA RTE. The Reentii, of 16 guns, hos bad a most gal!3nt aE.iion with a large 'reach Corvette, of 22 guns, which is supposatcaave foundered. We hld six killed and cf.; wounded : Captain NAYIEII and Lieut. .Wlpb,zrrs are both 4gNierely wounded." PLYMOUTH, NOV. 16.—Arrived the , rreiich Slow La Jeune Harrie, from Guadaloupe, hound to Bourdeaux, laden with sugar, - toffee, and - t'otton, captured by the Surinam Sloop of War. The French Ctiasse.M.4i6vlto Diligence, from ,Quiheron, laden with _brandy;and wine, captured by his Majesty's . Ship Saturn. The French Schooner La Louise, from Nantz, bound to Martinique, .laden-with pro visions, cut out by the boats of the Naiad and Nar cissus Frigates. Arrived the Dragon, 0174 guns, from the Chan nel Fleet .; inconsequence of a heavy gale of wind from the South West, the remainder of the Channel Fleet. are said to have bore up for Torbay. Arrived the Foxhound Sloop of War, with Dis patches from Spain ; . she . is supposed to have brought important intelligence. The Goede Hoop, SPUDL.E, from London, in ballast. The Apollo Tiansport was driven on shore this morning, in Mill Bay, in a heavy gale:of wind, but, it is hoped, will be got off when the weather mo derates, 'without much damage. Arrived L'Aigle Frigate from a cruize on the coast of France. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 17.—Arrived the Paragon, SMITH, Jenny, -, Jenny, INGLEDEN, 772,07//aS, ADAMSON, and the Ocean, SYBILL, from Quiberon Bay; also the Diana, WHEALER, from Madeira; bound to London. Szn!ed his Maje,ty's Ship Pluto on a cruize ; and the Conquest, -, and Speedy, BAZIN, for Guern- sey. Came into harbour this day the Surly Cutter, and tilt. Defender G'un-brig. COWES, Nov. 17.—A large Transport Ship called the Elizabeth, of London, coming home 'from Comma, under convoy of one of his Majesty's Slips, went on shore on the south .side of the Isl. of Wight, in a hard gale of wind at S. W. on the night of the 16th inst. and is since gone entirely to pieces. The Mate and eight seamen' are unto) tnnately drowned, but the Captain and six of the crew were with 'dirficulty saved. The Schooner Diana, W. WILY Master, from Madeira for London, wit h wine and col ,at rived here yesteiday in 18 days from St. Mic.iael's, and 33 from Madeira; and the Sloop J. PITT Master, from Bideford for London, wi,h oats, with the loss of main-sail and jib in a hard gile ot wind. TORBAY, Nov. !G.—Came in the Channel Fleet, hnier command of Admiral - GAmEtzR; from their station off Brest. DEAL, Nov. 17.—ArrivkA Abrairtam, PO D " DEN, fro.., iNflogadore, and remain in ate Down's with the Ships as per last. SHEERNESq, Nov. 16. Arrived his Majesty's Gun-brig Archer, Lieut. PRICE. from the Do vies, having driven trod' her ,ink.hors weht on shore on Deal Beach. , This rnorein.; Vice Admiral WELLS hoisted his Hag aoin. Aimed the Depiront T-nder, Lieut. ANTRAM, With volunteers from the River. Came clo,:itin' troth the River, his Majesty's Ships Britomart, Ronald°, and thnchetsta. . . The lollowing glowing Letter has -been received from Serjevnt PAcKWOoD, Of the Royai Marines, dated in Cildnuei Soundings, Aineihyst, un Sunday last : • •`sin desirous of giving y o u th e ear li est i nte lli gence I am at,: of a well-contested battle, b oug h t by his Nia.p.t) Ship Amethyst, M S yin our . E sq. , omit titter, and the . French National I. rnote La 'filet's, or t wenty -eight tzi,pounders on her main -deck. 'dim. was foil,4ht otf L'ehret.t, where we have ' , cell crinz,n,:, these last fourteen w,eks. On the night of tin toth inst. stood close in to the laud ; shout (wk. within two miles of the noun, on the N.W. end ,at the Isle of •ron. larboard tack on board, short ened sail, wore round, Drought to, the wind on the starboard tack. wind then at N.E. ship's head N.N.W. keepinif, the land close on bo.ird. At seven o'clock the same evenii4;, observed a Sail astern near the Isle of Cron, stannolg to tne S.W. wore sn.p, made sail in chace, beat to quamrS, cicared away for aalon, soon suspecting her an enelliy ; we per ceived her to make alt sail.. At twenty nurtures past little brought her to action; a' forty minutes past t aye, A.M. she struck to the Amethyst. alter a very bloody and well contested action. The enemy's less in kilted is ro3 ; badly wounded, ac. cording to the neare.t account, rural, killed and w Lnt. cd, 223. . _ _ riots, kti Lc! and wounded, to the nearest account, 73 to:at. Jst of the Royal Marines Killed and WoulichNi hi Op Amethyst : " ()dicers of the Royal Marines—Second. Lieutenant Ken dall; ; First. Lieutenant Payne, badly wounded. Rank and tile r killed; §, dangerously wounded; 2, slightly ; my - self slightly bruised in my right arm aim nand, when our inizen-mast tell ; but, thank God, I am v ry well in nealth and spirits. " 1 will give you a detail to the best of my knowledge We fought the first three bamdsines with our larboard guns, and were close on board of each other. We separated, hot Fastened to each other. She worked her ship remark. ably well, and came on the starboard-side. The action then was very obstinate for two hours. She snot away nui In ist ; ►t fell with ihe inizen. top. sail and viet (the driver not being closely brailed up, riot havins time) across the . quarter-deck ; uo time to clear the wreck ;. she cheered at suehasight. „ . We ctieered again, and the neKt broadside we brought her mizen-mast down. She dropt aboard us, as I may term ir, as she had rather the,weatiler gage. At this time 1 be hefe her intentions were to carry us, but she soon rOjild tier mistake., She had about 30 soldiers in her tore and main tope, and they kept up a constant ti e, with 'hen nearing then' stink pots on board ;. the sustained a very heavy loss about this time, our ship being n ice on fire, but was s co w pot out, and not ti me t o c l ear the wt . ; ck on the quarter-deck. We lay muzzle to muzzle about an hour and ti 'mum. S; ourthen often stealing their sponges, and, the ot h ers ] servuis us the same way ; a n d, atter an action of full three 11,,ni s ami zo minutes, she struck, atter a most obstinate battle, le.:sing her deck entirely , covered with dead and 4 ‘ Her commander was killed. His peopie say lie was de termined not to strike toil single-d,:eised snip; but she toirai Eng:isimien on board the Amethyst A tter your answer, I will give you a more clear account ut those two youdg, -but very gallant ()dicers, of the: Royal slarines, suit tile patty under their command, who, 1 thh,k, ave added' 4n-ther laurel to such a noble corps. Excuse use it. lam going too far with this; but 1 cannot nelp mentioning Su c h or,very o two such young Officers, and -men who stqoct so. true to th.: cause. I have nothing more to acid, than 1 hope we shall soon be in readiness to encounter such anotter foe.” COURT OF INQUIRY. SECOND DAY. AroV. 1 ' procee la i n The hour at which the COurt C c il l e o l s s e ea d ' 'its ings yesterday, prevented us from the mere opening. The crowd that pressed l:or mission was prodigious, and great confusion attenu.., ed the.attempt to obtain 'entrance.' - As soon as e t i ja der was restored, the business of the day wag b vc g ir by the JUDGE ADVOCATE reading letters froto 4 a.. finv to - the Jp.dge Advocate, exPla ° a giving more ti tory of his condu& in Portnefal.' Among . .others, letter frorn"Sii-HEw DALRYMPLE to Lord REACH, requesting the produCtion of the correipo n ence between his L or d s hip, as S ecret ary of Slate, t the Portuguese A m b assa d or , resneaing the hoe ° condo& to be pursued with respect to regaining P o s ; sessicn of Portug a l, L or d CASTLEREAGH'S :3°,`ci,e was then read, a gree i ng to pro d uce t h e eorr6P 6 ' ence alluded to, with the exception of munications with the Bishop of Operto. • After making.considerable progress in these re tails, a pause took place, and atter p a short conferac" among the Members of the Board, i f to The JUDGE ADVOCATE, adressing the audience, stated, that the Board, infic' eu ; L, by a wish to promote the ends, of public ju st j' it were extremely anxious-to prohibit any t `'` lt had a teu.dency to defeat that desirable obj , t , :;t:,,,.bb was therefore his determination not - to stilfer; of publication of any part, of the proeedings the investigation. The Board wished it tiKe some cow to be distinctly understood, that their proh o . :o, should extet,d b e y on d t h e term i nat i on o f t h e 0 4 e 3 14 'iy Inquiry, on the result of which would depoo d e.. MAJESTY'S pleasure, Whether any further i nvestlb tion of a military nature s h ou ld ta k e p l ace , It w,i,o t ; therefore, expe;iient fo require the suppression 0 ' publication of all proceedings, until the gene r - 1 , suit should be known. The copy of a letter was produced, written by A. WELLESLEY to Gen. BURRARD. The fat objee i led to its being p u bli c l y rea d , b ecause he h n written it in confid e nce, an d i t contained frc'eAr; nions on the cha ra dt ers o f severa l Portuguese "" cers, who,._ not bei ng su bj e el s o f our Goverolll et : g l i ought not to have thei r adieus examined by Court belonging to this country. Lord MOIRA perused the l e tt er , an d sa id, th a r t : contents certainly did n u t re f er to t h e su bj e a °V er 9 vestigation ; and as the praCtice of publishing t r of a confidential nature, - abouading with free I t , nions persons nut su bj e ct s o f our Governoe would lead to most unpleasant Consequence!' e , should move that it should not be real publ l Y l , The other Members of the Court coneu red 41 ,10 Lordship's opini o n, an d t h e l etter was rea d by (litt'ereht- Members of the Board, but not in the bed. ing of strangers. Sir HEW DALRYMPLE then cam e f orwa rd 01- A ' 0 dressed .the'Court. He s ta te d, thae- before be 0 11 ; 4 in thenarrattve of his proeeedings, which a wt, s : e lf intention to 13y before th e C ow t , h e felt IS called on to say a word o r two in vinclicatiao:4l'll3te character, which had be e n grossly aspersed , u se public Papers, to serve, as it should seem, th C.- ipitcl ot a more favoured Officer. The Coliveollod aat been very generally reprobated in this Country/A:0 had no doubt that in a short lime it wolii e d; more tavowably, becau s e more Justly, appreci t t o By the publications' itt qnestion, however, be re Convention calamitous o r o th erwe , e , be veilsr~P sen.ed as ti,e sole author ot it ; that :troll; ti t ! , ,ir ment ef his arrival , he had had the stupi a re stl a i t iO tiott to act in Opposition . to. the plan of prate lii previously agreed on, and t o or d er i t to be 037'010 that he had dashed the laur e l s t roin t h e brow! lit victor ! aid that Sir A. WELLEstEY had prot",via ; against, or, at all events, h a d strong l y di s aPPY of, the terms of th e C onven ti on ! Fur i:ims e , j '' t h 4 had carefully abstainr-d from st a ti ng ally iblf)6 t puhlie• Papers, altn t , ug h he was not he re a-gions to his quitting the army in Poi tugji? it s werepersons at work the re w i t h s i m il ar itnlAi t '''t h is 4 1 to those thrown out against his character in o f ceuldly He had purposely:abstained fwc ii , Newcpaper appeals, reserving hiniseit for thiso w coeld ill) douTid. tide, and with th e c .dour and openness iecoiningea Offic i ' r ' his ca-c. He now pleded himself ithat c sir and to his C. , untry, that Sir HARRY BURlA l") ;w1C ARTHI , R WELLEsLEy, and ludihel!, \se Geneial KkeecitmAte when the Etna of the Convention of Cintra tre etiscuPiT liti ent• settled. Sir A. WELLESLEY bore .that .P rt) , l tua° Ent in the di;rl24 , iion, to inch Lie r‘ . 00 (tun. he hold i I the countlyo he gl reou' "` ; ` u.i i` c arf -bad lately Eta ned, and the iinportant more partictilarly of a kcal which he sensed, so well civil!, d him tozis,ume. le fore, had di,cuised, and assented to, not only i '' o4 pr =pie of the Convention, pith the tielat of it ; and so fai from its being currv;.:l 11 !;. Srl ARTHUR WELLESL , EY had sined the mires by the order, or rather by the compo'.T s l%:' of him (Sir H. DA ea ;21.E) , as leid two' 11 . p• nuaed, the fact was,' that he liinisvif %% 03 9 ;,ie ping up for the purpo,e 01 putting Ins ow tight iotortuat. to the preliminary ariides, xvitett tie was P`l 0 le" by General KELLEttmASI iontt iat turn), 'Ci . O l.O minded him that he, as Commander nut sign a Preliminary Treaty, w here the Otil c i l qir the other side was only a G coral of Divisiou • n o A. WELLEsLEY, then sioned Eh, Preliminary without any order tram him (Sir H. DALaYAI7I'od The conversation, he agreed, was carried tai ill d French languige, and it ari g ht be nut, he belit ; it was, that General KEL LERMAN took minute,- J o . As already s a id,• to,. ev et , e had never insert ed own representations, or his wen wiAles, in ii 3e P: 4 o er lie prints. He had liot, a s was sated his 145 t be insisted on a Cow 1-,nartial. He was happy rb j . ere Di; should meet a co u rt l i ke t h e present , wfltyG case .would be Wily gone into, an d wet ,d 0'", se checked by the trammels ot legal proceed:he., th at t!i not atra;d of iin enquiiy, conviec e ' • it ea his eduseand that o f trot h wou l d b e f o und 1( 1 W'; o ot in hand. He assured the Court that he ' l "i tt sv ,er avail himselt of th e privile g e.ot dLciining to " ) * 1 o n any question, test it snould crinduale Itunsel i ; s i , the contrary, l ie. should te.el pleasure th e b ais cif nets, being sifted to the botiorn, and he 111 ; bi ct; ,itouht be 'ready t o g i ve every satiih.iction % s ill leigin be' demand e d o f h i ll, or w hi c h W `, l 4 , l etio ois power '' to , rive. He had n o t, as already ' 1 big demanded a Court Martial, and one reasch .. not d :ing so wa s , b e -ca use no charges .of a do' • • ---'I